But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a superior search engine. Google has done a similar job. For two weeks as they handled the paperwork the young men had nowhere to deposit the money.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who with Larry Page co-founded Google one of the most profitable Internet companies. Together Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company. in computer science.